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-ON SALE- “Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State”
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Vanished: A Neighborhood Disappears
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Race & Class Barriers: the Fever Dream of Hartford’s ‘Bishops’
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9 Clinton Street vs. Bushnell Memorial Hall: Profit over people
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The Squatters of Peoples Housing Action
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“By Spring We’ll Be In Potter’s Field”
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“Unloved, overworked, underpaid,” but workers are still fighting back.
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From Angola Prison to Hartford: the Life of a Black Panther
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Howard Zinn still shows us history’s fugitive moments of compassion
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The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery.
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May Day !
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The Freedom Journey of Nancy Jackson
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Brookwood Labor College: ”We teach the truth”
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Reckoning with Racist Violence
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Captain John Mason (and his defenders) Should Take a Hint
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On Juneteenth, Challenge Pain and Injustice, Dont Deny it
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Baseball is Still a Civil Rights Battleground
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Mark Twain and the Stain of Torture
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Wise Men and Macheteros
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Rising Tide: Steamboat Workers
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Early Abolitionists Have Lessons for Us Today
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Propaganda: State-Sanctioned Lying
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Fight Violence and Poverty with Mutual Aid
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Two, Three, Many Labor Days
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The Preacher Who Called for Reparations in 1837
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Memorials, Treason, and History
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A Tale of Two Protests
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June 27th: Happy Birthday Lucy Parsons!
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The COVID 19 Pandemic is Not the “Great Equalizer”
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Who’s Afraid of Socialism?
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Storm Center of Labor Unrest
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The Fight of Black Women for Suffrage
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“Take Away Their Clubs and Give Them Shovels”
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Josephine Bennett, Hartford’s City Mother
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“Our Mission is Not Violence But Freedom”
December 7, 2023
December 7, 2023
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Nursing home workers’ 2021 historic win
November 4, 2023
February 11, 2024
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Memorial Day: Reckoning and Remembrance
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